The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-05-18
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

Three companies of troops have been
sent into the Sweet Grass hills to watch
for British Indians.
Wickes will be the liveliest railroad
and mining camp in the territory for the
next year or two at least.
A contract has been let for one hun-
dred and fifty Thousand ties, to b, used
in building the Bit' Root railroad.
Montana Regent won the one and one
third mile race of the Kentucky Associ-
alton at Lexington, Tuesday, in 1:5e3
The debt Of Megher county was de.
creased more than twenty-one thou
sand dollars during the past fiscal year,
The. Livingston Coal and Coke com.
pany is furnishing the great bulk of tie
coke for the Wickes reduction works
now.
| Butte is soon to have two street rail-
ways and the city council has granted a
right of way to the companies for that
purpose.
Twenty thousand dollars of Lewis
d Clarke county's court house bonds
sold recently in New York for l:s per
cent. premium.
George b. Hartman, one of the leading
fruit-growers of Missoula county predicts
that peaches will yet be grown in Mon
tana proftably.
There will be, it is estimated. about
$4,000 pounds of cattle hides shipped
from Benton this year-the result of a
hard year on stock.
On Thursday the Thermometers in the
signal service Office at Fort Assinaboine
registered 79' above, the highest ever
recorded at that station in April,
The Governor of Utah pardoned out
Mcdonald and slade for prize fighting
in Salt Lake, on petition from the grand
Jurors, citizens of Butte and others.
The Montana Central contractors have
ing commenced work on the Butte end
of the line it will be continued until the
last spike shall have been driven.
The Benton Press quotes President
Hill of the Manitoba road as saying that
the Manitoba railroad would rearh Fort
Benton between the 18th and 10th of
August, 1887.
At Boulder, Chief Justice Mcconnell
delivered the death sentence on Hart,
the man convicted of the murder of John
w. Pitts, tie sentence to be executed
on the 24th of June next, according to
the law.
P. b. Winston. the railroad contractor
of Shepard & Winston, builders of the
| Manitoba's western extension, says 5000
men and 5000 teams are pushing the
grade westward at the rate of four. miles
and half per day.
Major Charles H. Whipple is relieved
from duty at Fort Keogh and ordered to
take temporary station at Fort Leaven-
worth; Major John P. Baker Is relieved
from duty at Fort Leavenworth and
ordered to take station at Helena.
The Butte City election last year re-
suited in the election of W. R. Lenyon
democratic mayor. W, o. Speer, rrpub-
lican, city attorney, L. J. Hamilton. rep.
police magistrate, ]. A. Cannon, rep.,
treasurer; John Jolly, dem.. CITY marshal.
The alderman are: G. F. Lloyd, rep,
Frank Bateman, rep, Thos. Lavell dem,
H. G. Walton, dem.
The Roman Catholic Church wa, rob-
bed Of a copper gilt chalice and a SILVER
cruet stand on Saturday morning. Faith
er van de Ven said the church was
closed from 0 O'Clock Saturday night un-
til 6 o'clock Sunday morning, between
which hours the robbery must have
taken place. A silver ciborium belong
ing to Father Tremblay was also taken.
A window was found ajar when the
sacristan went to open the church in the
morning, and every indication pointed
to the conclusion that the thief had con-
cealed himself in the church before
closing time and proceeded to his sacre-
ligioua work after the sacred edificc was
locked up. The value of the articles is
trifling. Father van de Ven notified all
the pawn-broking establishments OF his
loss. but has little hopes oftheir recovery.
Miner.
For several years past Montana has
been sending down to the low countries
horses that were world-beaters, until she
has become recognized as the home of
some of the fleetest animals on the Amer
lean turf And now our hunting dogs
are coming to the front. A few weeks
ago Nortier English setter) half broth
er to Ed, Parsons Frank s., beat the
champion field dog of America in trial
at Richmond. Nortier is owned by John
w. Besserer of Bozeman. He was on
tered in the fall, but had no one to look
after him and was beaten. This si,ring
John went down there and challenged
the winner of last falls contest, who
thus became the champion field Dig of
America, to trial for $500 side Butte
sportsmen have just learned the result,
which was that Nortier came out win
ner by several points.-Inter Mountain,
The Utah & Northern Railway Com
piny yesterday filed in the Recorders
Office at the court house, a mortgage
dated July l, 1886, to the American Loan
and Trust company of Boston. 1t was
made to secure consolidated first mort
gage bonds running forty years, limited
to fifteen thousand dollars per mile of
railroad. The road was 468.lS miles at
date of the instrument. There is rrior
lien in the shape of mortgage to G ,uld
and Richardson. This is to be lifted and
the company contemplate an expendi-
ture of about three million dollars, to
change its grade to broad gauge and
furnish rolling stock. c. F. Adams as
president, conveys all the road bed from
Ogden to Garrison and branches now in
existence, subject to the Gould and
Richardson mortgage to the American
Loan and Trust company, in trust to
secure the holders of the bonds they con-
template issuing to the above amount
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